In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, Centro Studi-Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini/Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to present a retrospective of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most iconoclastic and influential figures in Italian cinema in the generation following the neo-realists.

Widely recognized as a playwright, novelist, political theorist, journalist, linguist, teacher and poet, Pasolini turned to the cinema "to represent reality with reality." But as simple as this sounds, he shaped cinematic means to many different purposes including fanciful realizations of myths and medieval tales (with contemporary resonance), and pointed political critiques, often couched in allegory. He was the product of a deeply troubled but lifelong relationship with Catholicism, and the complicated experience of being homosexual in a world, and a nation, that he saw as progressively conformist and consumerist.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano